"Translation of La nouvelle microbiologie: Des microbiotes aux CRISPR by Pascale Cossart, Odile Jacob, 2016"--Title page verso.

PART :1 New concepts in microbiology 1: Bacteria: many friends, new enemies 2: Bacteria: Highly organized unicellular organisms 3: The RNA revolution 4: From the CRISPR defense sustem to CRISPR/Cas9 method for modifying genomes 5: Antibiotic resistance PART :2 Sociomicrobiology: The social lives of bacteria 6: Biodilms: When bacteria gather together 7: How bacteria communicate: Chemical language and quorum sensing 8: When bacteria kill each other 9: Human-Animal symbioses: The microbiotas 10: Bacterium-plant symbioses: Microbiotas of palnts 11: Endosymbiotic relationships PART : 3 The biology of infections 12: Pathogenic bacteria, major scourges,and new diseases 13: The multiple strategies of pathogenic bacteria 14: Pathogenic bacteria in insects 15: Plants and their pathogenic bacteria 16: New visions in infection defense PART 4: Bacteria as tools 17: Bacteria as a tools for research 18: Bacteria: Old and new health tools 19: Bacteria as Environmental tools 20: Conclusion Appendix: Major figures microbiology Glossary Bibliography Photo credits index

Microbiology has undergone radical changes over the past few decades, ushering in an exciting new era in science. In The New Microbiology, Pascale Cossart tells a splendid story about the revolution in microbiology, especially in bacteriology. This story has wide-ranging implications for human health and medicine, agriculture, environmental science, and our understanding of evolution. The revolution results from the powerful tools of molecular and cellular biology, genomics, and bioinformatics, which have yielded amazing discoveries, from entire genome sequences to video of bacteria invading host cells. This book is for both scientists and especially nonscientists who would like to learn more about the extraordinary world of bacteria.

Includes bibliographical references and index.